On 3/3/2014 10:37 PM, trent shipley wrote:
...
The second thing it made me think is that while it cannot be said that
one science is more important than another, the discursive domains
indexed by sciences can be ranked as more or less foundational or
derived, or more pejoratively as reductionist
On 9/5/2013 7:24 AM, ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
Or are you worried about energy being beamed down inefficiently, producing
much more heat than just the amount from people using energy directly?
No, even if it was possible to beam energy with 100% efficiency
On 9/5/2013 4:54 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
The propulsion lasers to get the parts up to GEO at a cost where the
whole thing makes economic sense, those are weapons, game changing
weapons. And if I had to bet, it would be for them to be controlled by
the Chinese. Keith Henson _
Now
On 9/4/2013 4:40 PM, ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO wrote:
Even if these things were economically viable (which they probably
ain't), ambientally it would be a disaster. I can't image the Earth
getting such extra amount of radiant energy and not turning it (she?
Gaia?) into a hell much worse
On a related note, I've been reading about problems with the Romney
campaign's software to organize election day get-out-the-vote efforts.
My first reaction was Sabotage?, but now I'm betting that incompetence
is the more likely explanation. See:
On 11/11/2012 6:00 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
...
Well, I also read that parts of it simply failedreporting 0 votes from a
long list on election day. The part that targeted voting lists to cull
those who haven't voted for attention can be made modular.
I don't think it was just a software
On 10/17/2012 7:12 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
Not in the habitable zone, however . . .
...
(3) Copy of the article to appear in today's issue of NATURE for those
who want all of the technical details:
http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1241/eso1241a.pdf
Ronn--
On 8/22/2012 10:08 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
It's a shiny 3D hologram trade paperback. Very excited!
Um. That's all.
It's interesting how books get published differently in different
countries.
I got the hardcover, which has a shiny dust jacket.
I liked the book, although I do have some
On 6/15/2012 2:37 AM, KZK wrote:
But Eve, who is listening in to the publicly
available noise, does not know which resistor was connected at each
end and cannot work it out either because the laws of thermodynamics
prevent the extraction of this information from this kind of signal.
So why
on the AE
line to random and deciphers the sequence that Alice used. Eve then
Uses that sequence on the BE Line. Bob can't tell the difference
between the AB line and the BE line, sets his resisters randomly and
decodes the message. (Eve can even send Bob a False message).
David Hobby Fri, 15
Wayne--
Hi. I'm top-posting both to make my point and because that's
what this webmail client wants to do. (My own computer has
video card issues at the moment.)
If one wants to reply to several different points in a previous
post, it makes sense to do this in one email. But how does
one
- Original Message -
From: Ticia ti...@xs4all.nl
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 11:35:37 AM
Subject: Re: Br¡n: On Fracking and Earthquakes
On 27 Aug 2011, at 02:46, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 06:57 AM Friday
KZK wrote:
On 11/14/2010 10:39 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
...
This is why it is futile to argue with religionists.
That is obvious. Anyone who professes a belief in something unprovable
(or provably false) is a denialist.
This isn't really a fair criticism. Religious belief
is often
On a completely different note, but I felt like
sharing it:
One of my cats performed a successful internet
search. I'd left the browser open, with iGoogle
up. The cat's contribution was apparently typing
0222, a bit of mouse movement, and a click or an
enter.
What I woke up to was GoogleMaps,
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
...
Is is beyond the intelligence level of cats to
understand that it's possible to use the mouse and
see interesting things in the screen?
On a different note, do cats see computer screens the
same way we do?
I've seen videos of cats treating TVs as boxes
with stuff
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:09 PM, David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Hi. I'm with Keith on this. A mortgage is not an
absolute promise to pay back the loan. Rather, the
deal is that if the borrower does not keep up payments,
the lender can take back the property
John Williams wrote:
...
By the way, the Chris' post fits the definition of a troll much better
than anything I have posted recently, since it was not addressing any
points that had been made in the thread so far, did not appear to make
any effort to explain the change of subject or make a
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
IIRC, there was a story somewhere that the s...@home software
included a bug (like a crippleware) that would make it run
_much slower_ than it could run, because there was not enough
data for the millions of computers that would process this
data.
I am confusing things?
John Williams wrote:
...
Please explain why nobody but borrowers should have responsibility for a
market failure, which seems to be what you are implying.
No, you seem to be assuming that borrowers were losers, and the only
losers, in the housing bubble.
But regardless, it is a simple
Keith Henson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
To: 'Killer Bs \(David Brin et al\) Discussion'
We probably will never know if this StratoSolar method works.
...
David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
I see bigger problems with losses
Keith Henson wrote:
StratoSolar
This is off NDA so I can go into detail.
...
Ed's
approach, which he named StratoSolar, was to reduce the mass from
hundreds of kg per kW to a few tens of kg by moving the solar
concentrator into the stratosphere as a large, lightweight, buoyant
structure.
On 9/8/2010 2:42 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
Thanks Max, but the conversations on David's page are fascinating.
However, the problem seems to be solved; I simply outed the troll,
with his help. The fellow made himself rather obvious with his
profile picture of a troll like creature, a prenom
On 9/8/2010 4:32 PM, Wayne Eddy wrote:
Sounds interesting, but I wonder how it would cope with a big storm?
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Keith Henson hkeithhen...@gmail.com
mailto:hkeithhen...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.slideshare.net/chris8649/stratosolar-overview
On 9/7/2010 3:19 PM, John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jon Louis Mannnet_democr...@yahoo.com wrote:
Some time ago I unsubscribed from this list because of the comments of one
person who has since matured. Now I am having a similar problem with someone
on Dr. Brin's FB
William T Goodall wrote:
Jews and Muslims
are allowed to ignore the laws on animal cruelty and engage in the
barbaric practice of slitting the throats of live animals without
numbing them in order to create kosher and halal meat.
I don't have a big problem with this one. Back when
it became a
William T Goodall wrote:
On 7 Jul 2010, at 22:45, Dan Minette wrote:
It all has to do with value systems. I was mentioning William, not
as finger pointing, but in recognition that he has a very different
set of values than I do.
I am an honest person who values truth and logical argument and
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
BBC News - Neutrino 'ghost particle' sized up by astronomers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10364160.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3yrm78g
Ronn--
Thanks for the link. Uh..., for science writing of
that quality, would it be possible to provide a
clearer
KZK wrote:
David Brin Wrote:
Go read some of ther terrific “fanfic” or fan-generated fiction out
there. Here’s a great example: futurist/scholar Eliezer Yudkowsky’s
ongoing series/novel that is both a tribute to - and deconstruction
of - J.K. Rowling’s fantasy universe. HARRY POTTER AND THE
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
You have a wrong idea about Brazil. Unfortunately,
the paradise that movies like Blame it on Rio or Tourists
depict is as far away from actual Brazil as Escape from NY
or The Postman [*] is from the actual USA.
Is the difference between depiction
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
Trying to think of a movie that portrays the USA as
a good place to visit...
American Pie, Basic Instinct,...
...
And all of them portray the USA in a very positive way!
Alberto--
Help me, I'm working on this. The message of Basic Instinct
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
Petrobras was :-)
Did they make women's undergarments out of petroleum?
You have a wrong idea about Brazil. Unfortunately,
the paradise that movies like Blame it on Rio or Tourists
depict is as far away from actual Brazil as Escape from NY
or
Alberto--
In the on-going saga of the pruning of Wikipedia, the
article Streaker_(David_Brin) was proposed for deletion,
but kept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Streaker_(David_Brin)#Streaker_.28David_Brin.29
The proposer, Abductive, may even have been right.
.
Shame.
C.
I emailed him offlist about it, and here's his reply:
David Hobby wrote:
Michael Harney wrote:
I thought I was ready to come back here. I was wrong. I was too
damaged by the last few years of my life working in a job that I
was ill suited for but had to do to make ends meet. I'll
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
... My sense is that this is a philosophical thing to him--he's in
the Deletionist camp on Wikipedia, who want to limit the number
of articles on non-notable topics. (He also questions articles
on minor academic journals, people I've never heard of, and so on.)
...
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
I don't understand turning the Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia
into a wiki format or what's a Brin Wiki, but I am all for doing
anything to block trolls from remove any of Dr. Brin's contributions
to the SF lexicon.
Jon--
Hi. I guess the conversation got a bit
Nick Arnett wrote:
My friends I hate to write this. Been putting it off for a while.
My younger sister, Lesley, the youngest of the four of us, mother of my
five-year-old niece, Sarah, could not fight off the sepsis that attacked
her body. Lesley died this morning.
I have never hurt
Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
Hi all!
...
I'm back.
...
Jeroen “Blast From The Past” van Baardwijk
Jeroen--
Hi, and welcome back. It has been awhile.
One question: What are your plans for the
other Brin-L, the one at
http://www.brin-l.com/frame.html ?
I'd suppose that the archives for
...
It seems like they are running a seek-and-destroy against every Brin
stuff in wikipedia. After Alvin, the trolls will delete Streaker.
The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan,
Tymbrimi, Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo.
...
If we want the articles
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was
followed by his brother Raul(?).
What is the _reliable_ source that Fidel is undead?
Alberto Monteiro
How about Van Helsing's _Who's Who of Vampires_?
...
It seems like they are running a seek-and-destroy against every Brin
stuff in wikipedia. After Alvin, the trolls will delete Streaker.
The Troll is targeting for deletion: Gubru, G'Kek, EarthClan, Tymbrimi,
Streaker (David Brin), Jophur, and Alvin Hph-wayuo.
It must be a Brin-hater.
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Alberto--
Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it,
since it involves a major character in a series
of popular science fiction novels.
No, not my language, not my place to battle. I've tried
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 29/12/2009, at 3:44 AM, David Hobby wrote:
Alberto--
Wow, I guess it is my place to battle. I've been going back and
forth with the troll, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Some of this is because I don't really understand his criteria, or
what
Trent Shipley wrote:
...
A quick Google doesn't turn up any strong scifi literary wikis. Given
the structure of a well designed wiki, David Brin's Uplift Universe
should be a viable category effectively acting as a sub-wiki. In short,
you can have both.
...
From: Alberto Vieira Ferreira
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
I really enjoyed this, but can't share it with my colleagues, since they
wouldn't get either reference.
Sometimes it's really a pain in the ass to be a programmer and English major
working in a PR department as the graphics guy.
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 02:05 PM Saturday 11/14/2009, Keith Henson wrote:
Go there and look.
...
Yeah, I've suggested that before, but it's hard enough getting funding
for something like Kepler . . .
. . . ronn! :)
I still thought it could be a nice result, if it
panned out. Before
Deborah Harrell wrote:
David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Debbi wrote:
Are protoplanets made of protomatter?! Just who are these surveyors,
and are they being unethical scientists!? Is protomatter related to
protomorphogens, the 'primitive matter which makes up organs' and is
sold
Deborah Harrell wrote:
David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
...
O.K., how about stem cells, made from the stems of real plants?
(Yarrow could be good, for the I Ching connection. But papaver
somniferum was my first choice.)
I actually had to look up the latter - all the times I've seen
Hi. I just saw the following in article summaries
from Nature. The actual article is behind a paywall,
but this seems interesting.
---David
Editor's Summary
12 November 2009 In search of solar lithium
Stars similar to the Sun in age, mass and composition
Deborah Harrell wrote:
David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Hi. I just saw the following in article summaries
from Nature. The actual article is behind a paywall,
but this seems interesting.
...
Are protoplanets made of protomatter?! Just who are these surveyors,
and are they being
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Julia wrote:
It's amazing what you find needs doing when you finally have all your kids
in school for a full day for the first time ever. I might have most of it
done by the time school gets out in early June!
I've heard the same thing about retirement; my
Julia Thompson wrote:
...
I think in both cases, it's sort of a deferred maintenance problem. When
you finally have time, there's a BIG backlog to deal with.
...
Yes. And in our case, it was compounded by our daughter refusing to sleep
in the room she shared with her twin brother, starting
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
This is a story about a girl.
While at the funeral of her own mother, she met a guy whom she did not
know.
She thought this guy was amazing, so much the dream guy that she was
searching for that she fell in love with him immediately.
However, she never asked for his
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 23/09/2009, at 8:26 AM, Pat Mathews wrote:
If I was uncivil, I apologize. I said what it appeared to me to be,
but I may be wrong. At any rate, this was addressed, not to those who
considered the plea ineffective, but those who began religious arguments.
Well, this
John Williams wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:31 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
No, I didn't bring it up. Would you prefer the
statement I am prepared to make everybody in
America pay their share to keep people from
dying because they can't afford to pay for basic
health care.?
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
John Williams wrote:
I don't get this. You recently wrote:
No, I do not propose that the US should abolish all taxes, and I have
written that here before.
So some taxes are O.K.? But I imagine that
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
John Williams wrote:
I don't get this. You recently wrote:
No, I do not propose that the US should abolish all taxes, and I have
written that here before.
So some taxes are O.K.? But I imagine that
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:23 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
here's a new thread, as per your request.
I don't really see why a new thread is justified,
since this seems to get at something you've said
repeatedly in the old thread. You claim that
spending taxes
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Until this is
resolved, kindly cease to refer to taxation as
taking your money, etc.
Are you serious?
Yes. It's a dishonest way to refer to it, since
you admit that taxation is in principle
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Bruce Bostwicklihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:19 PM, John Williams wrote:
If you really want to discuss this again, please start a new thread
and ask me again.
*If*.
Right. I already stated my opinion that I don't
John Williams wrote:
...
John--
At the moment, it's not clear to me that you HAVE any
coherent views on the legitimacy of taxation. If you
do, feel free to outline them.
It seems that whenever I press you for details on
this kind of thing, you get vague. Can you do better
than taxation is
Jo Anne wrote:
Hello list--
Dan wrote:
Anyways, when we aren't arguing with John; not much is said around here any
more. None of us has his talent for generating list traffic. :-)
To which I would argue, is low traffic a bad thing? I think the
signal:noise ratio has gone way up, lately.
John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Yes. It's a dishonest way to refer to it, since
you admit that taxation is in principle justified.
Calling a spade a spade is not dishonest. And I did not admit that
taxation is in principle
John Williams wrote:
...
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Yes. It's a dishonest way to refer to it, since
you admit that taxation is in principle justified.
...
Arguing fairly and honestly is the way to have a discussion
with me.
You're still not
John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:56 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
(Anyway, aren't charitable
contributions tax-deductible?)
You do realize that tax-deductible means that your taxes are reduced
by some fraction of the amount you donate, not the whole amount? Less
than
John Williams wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:31 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
Your argument seemed to be: Money I pay in taxes
is money I won't give to worthy charities. I didn't
buy the ARGUMENT, for obvious reasons. That was not
an attack on your views.
It is not an
John Williams wrote:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
If you are giving that much to charity, that's good.
But it's mostly irrelevant to what we were talking about.
Possibly irrelevant, but you were the one that brought it up, saying
you were prepared to
John Williams wrote:
...
Taking away my money against my will and limiting my choices for what
kind of health care I can purchase is taking away my freedom of
choice.
...
John--
This is why I've quit talking with you about
health insurance. When pressed, your bottom
line seems to be taxation
John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
...
Yes, I AM prepared to make you pay your share
to keep people from dying
Really? Would you literally come to my house with a gun and force me
to give you money, telling me that you know better who
John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Bruce Bostwicklihan161...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Beyond proposals, though, there is a very strong argument to be made that
it's inhumane to simply leave people to die if they can't find insurance
coverage to pay for medical care that costs
Patrick Sweeney wrote:
...
No, that's what governments are for. I agree with
you, they do tax by force. So?
Someone else asked this in an earlier conversation, but does anyone
else on the list ever have the government come to their house with a
gun and force them to file their taxes? It's
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
IIRC, Phobos is falling and Deimos is leaving Mars.
...and our moon is leaving too.
No, it's not. If the Sun didn't explode [*], the Earth-Moon
system would stabilize in two tidal-locked bodies.
Alberto--
I'd go with doesn't, but that does make
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
...
And why with 100+ moons, none of them has a sub-moon?
My guess would be that there just aren't many stable solutions to a
close-in three-body problem like that. Jupiter's gravitational effects
dominate the orbital dynamics of a good part of the solar system, and
John Williams wrote:
...
I wonder if the list administrators are reading this thread...
Where are the we ?
Right here, as always. But we don't own the list.
(I'm not sure passive/aggressive is the right word,
but seriously, give it a rest...)
---David
John Williams wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
(I'm not sure passive/aggressive is the right word,
but seriously, give it a rest...)
One of us apparently has no sense of humor.
Because of course, it couldn't just have not been
funny. : )
John Williams wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:43 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
John Williams wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
(I'm not sure passive/aggressive is the right word,
but seriously, give it a rest...)
One of us apparently
John Williams wrote:
It is interesting what some people find rude which does not seem rude
to others. I suspect that a neutral observer would look at my posts
during the last few weeks and judge that they are not at all rude. I
have been asking some uncomfortable questions, but not making any
John Williams wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Nick Arnettnick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
We have a sense of community here, along with the usual collaterals of
explicit and implicit standards of behavior and discourse. We do, indeed.
We don't like straw men or trolls (which I can't help
John Williams wrote:
...
We don't like straw men or trolls
...
There's that we several more times. How many people subscribe to this
email list, and how many of them do you speak for when you say we? How
did you determine that these people have that view?
You're not going to claim that all
John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:15 AM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
...
Yes, Charlie is someone I respect. His posts are
thoughtful, and when he argues, he does it in a fair
and constructive way.
So, you consider his post to me thoughtful, constructive, and worthy of
John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Patrick
Sweeneyfirefly.ga...@gmail.com wrote:
When you reach a point where the suggested solution to ridiculously
overpriced health insurance is to take out an insurance policy on your
insurance ... perhaps it's a sign that you ought to
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM,
dsummersmi...@comcast.netdsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
I wasn't clear. They don't understand enough about what is being regulated
to enforce the laws. The laws are very clear to me; its how one interprets
these clear laws in the light
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Dan M wrote:
No, that is the fault of the laws as written. The problem with the court
system is that they do not understand enough to enforce the laws as
written.
There is also the problem of laws written by people who often fail to
John Williams wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:36 AM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
I'd argue that the patent laws are not that poorly
written, the problem is that there's latitude in
their interpretation. I think that may be an
unavoidable problem.
Are you including the patents
dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
Original Message:
-
From: John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.com
...
Just so you know:
1) I saw your similar post about this the first time, several weeks ago
2) We had a similar discussion last year
3) Because of 2) and things that you write
John Williams wrote:
I think this WSJ article is free for anyone to read:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
but just in case you cannot read it, here are the 8 bullet points
...
Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies
must
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:07 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
That is what I'm taking away from this, too.
Dan's response seemed on topic to me.
If you would like to discuss any specific points from the last time
this came up (late last year), I would be glad to
John Williams wrote:
#1 patent-related
#2 patent-related
#4 IP-related
#5 patent-related
Sounds like you have a problem with the government-run patent system.
Yes. He's saying it doesn't actually work the
way you think it would, since there's latitude
for people to game the system.
How
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
John Williams wrote:
Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies
must cover.
...
Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what
health-care treatments cost.
...
Going
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Lance A. Brownla...@bearcircle.net wrote:
John Williams wrote:
There are billions of people around the world with worse healthcare
than virtually everyone in the United States. If the goal is to
redistribute wealth to improve healthcare
Trent Shipley wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
John Williams wrote:
...
Sounds like you have a problem with the government-run patent system.
Yes. He's saying it doesn't actually work the
way you think it would, since there's latitude
for people to game the system.
How would a non-government-run
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:26 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
How on earth is
the average consumer going to check that their policy is
NOT full of loopholes?
...
As for how a consumer can decide what product or service is best for
them, I can think of several
Trent Shipley wrote:
...
The moral principle that taxes are theft suffers from a similar
limitation. Logically taxes ARE theft.
Newspeak!
I stand behind this. When theft is understood as any taking, except as
punishment, then taxes are logically a form of theft. It's a logical
Trent Shipley wrote:
I wrote a suggestion to my Arizona State legislators about de-funding
the state universities in favor of tuition vouchers.
...
Dear Senator Linda Gray, Representative Doug Quelland, and
Representative Jim Weiers,
...
“Be it resolved that the mission of Arizona's public
Trent Shipley wrote:
Hi. It's interesting. I wonder about the last bit,
though. How does one tell whether or not a profession
is essential? (I can certainly name some that I feel
are NOT essential, but let's get beyond our personal biases.)
One answer may be a profession is essential
William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Aug 2009, at 22:14, David Hobby wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
...
NTSC vs. PAL: Not a fair criticism. That mess was created a LONG
time ago, and was also a problem with VHS tapes. (A bigger problem,
since the players were analog.)
Even with HD the frame
William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:12, KZK wrote:
Dr. Brin Wrote:
...
True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody
inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a
modern DVD player to watch a film that you already own - let alone
...
I don't
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
I have a new lawn mower. According to the instructions I need to change
the oil before using the mower again (the instructions say to change the
oil after the first 5 hours of operation, which is about how long it ran
mowing the whole yard twice, which is what I've
Chaton Jean-Marc wrote:
* Alberto Monteiro [Fri, 08/05/2009 at 14:18 -0200]
Dogs, elephants, and a few other animals are explicitly mentioned
as pre-sapient candidates that Earthclan is forbidden to uplift -
two clients are too much for even an elder galactic race.
Is it my faulting memory,
Dan M wrote:
I've got a question that I think about when I think of Brin. He hasn't
written a regular novel since Kiln People, which was about 6 years ago...and
his last graphic novel was a year after that.
Is it fair to say that, while he will continue to write short fiction, the
probability
Charlie Bell wrote:
...
We could find out through the magic of actually asking someone who might
know. Say, himself? :)
Cheater!
---David
Gorilla my dreams, maru
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